With its location on the Arabian Sea, Karachi serves as a transport hub, and is home to Pakistan's two largest seaports, the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim, as well as Pakistan's busiest airport, Jinnah International Airport. Though the Karachi region has been inhabited for millennia, the city was founded as the fortified village of Kolachi in 1729.
As a result of the operation, Karachi went from being ranked the world's 6th most dangerous city for crime in 2014, to 115th by mid 2021. ==Etymology== Modern Karachi was reputedly founded in 1729 as the settlement of Kolachi-jo-Goth.
The name Karachee, a shortened and corrupted version of the original name Kolachi-jo-Goth, was used for the first time in a Dutch report from 1742 about a shipwreck near the settlement. ==History== ===Early history=== The region around Karachi has been the site of human habitation for millennia.
Karachi is considered to be Pakistan's fashion capital, and has hosted the annual Karachi Fashion Week since 2009. Known as the "City of Lights" in the 1960s and 1970s for its vibrant nightlife, Karachi was beset by sharp ethnic, sectarian, and political conflict in the 1980s with the arrival of weaponry during the Soviet–Afghan War.
Karachi is considered to be Pakistan's fashion capital, and has hosted the annual Karachi Fashion Week since 2009. Known as the "City of Lights" in the 1960s and 1970s for its vibrant nightlife, Karachi was beset by sharp ethnic, sectarian, and political conflict in the 1980s with the arrival of weaponry during the Soviet–Afghan War.
Karachi is considered to be Pakistan's fashion capital, and has hosted the annual Karachi Fashion Week since 2009. Known as the "City of Lights" in the 1960s and 1970s for its vibrant nightlife, Karachi was beset by sharp ethnic, sectarian, and political conflict in the 1980s with the arrival of weaponry during the Soviet–Afghan War.
Karachi is considered to be Pakistan's fashion capital, and has hosted the annual Karachi Fashion Week since 2009. Known as the "City of Lights" in the 1960s and 1970s for its vibrant nightlife, Karachi was beset by sharp ethnic, sectarian, and political conflict in the 1980s with the arrival of weaponry during the Soviet–Afghan War.
The city had become well known for its high rates of violent crime, but recorded crimes sharply decreased following a crackdown operation against criminals, the MQM political party, and Islamist militants initiated in 2013 by the Pakistan Rangers.
As a result of the operation, Karachi went from being ranked the world's 6th most dangerous city for crime in 2014, to 115th by mid 2021. ==Etymology== Modern Karachi was reputedly founded in 1729 as the settlement of Kolachi-jo-Goth.
According to the 2017 census, Karachi's total population was 16,051,521 and its urban population was 14.9 million.
Ranked as a beta-global city, the city is Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre, with an estimated GDP of $164 billion (PPP) as of 2019.
As a result of the operation, Karachi went from being ranked the world's 6th most dangerous city for crime in 2014, to 115th by mid 2021. ==Etymology== Modern Karachi was reputedly founded in 1729 as the settlement of Kolachi-jo-Goth.
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